Monday, January 15, 2018

Getting it right

BBC World, the advertising-funded international news channel, has a new woman at the helm of its news programmes, after the departure of Anna Williams back in October.

Liz Corbin has three years experience as an Assistant Editor on the channel, and has been running the Singapore bureau (where lumps of overnight broadcasting are now produced) for nearly five years.

She came to the BBC News machine early, after a degree in Maths and Psychology at Leicester. The first job on her cv is as a broadcast assistant; in 2001, she says she was "BBC News 24's first text producer. Working in the control room on 9/11 writing the on-air captions".   Most recently she's been writing again, as Editor of the BBC's Reality Check. "The claim that the UK sent £350m per week to the EU is wrong."

She's giving a lecture on fact-checking at Oxford University on Wednesday afternoon.

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